long words
Rick Duggin
rduggin at comcast.net
Thu Sep 5 17:00:26 EDT 2002
Many thanks to Carlton, Brent, and Vincent for
their responses to my query -- especially for the
longest words in NT, and the great comment c.
Dr. Luke's vocabulary.
So far, it appears that the 24 letter word
SUGKATAKLHRONOMHQHSONTAI
may be the longest in LXX?
Rick Duggin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Broman" <broman at spawar.navy.mil>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: <vpbroman at mstar2.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:14 PM
Subject: [b-greek] Re: long words
> On Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:50, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 9/4/02 11:40:11 AM, rduggin at comcast.net writes:
> > >SUGKATAKLHRONOMHQHSONTAI
> > >Off the top of my head, I can't think of a longer verb in biblical
> > >literature.
>
> > >The longest one I can recall in the NT is the aor. infin.
> > >ANAKEFALAIWSASQAI, Ep.1:10.
>
> > What of SUGKATATEQEIMENOS in Luke 23:51 = 17 letters. I can't think of
> > others at the moment.
> > Carlton Winbery
>
> The longest words in the na26/27 NT are easily found by sed|tr|grep|sort.
> PROKEXEIROTONHMENOIS acts-10-41
> DEISIDAIMONESTEROUS acts-17-22
> KATADUNASTEUOMENOUS acts-10-38
>
> Trust a doctor to use the six foot words.
>
> Vincent Broman
> San Diego
>
>
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